Joe Biden told folks at a fundraiser that after he is elected Republicans will have an “epiphany” and work across the aisle with him.
My initial reaction was “how does someone who was Obama’s Vice President believe that? And why couldn’t he produce these results from 2009-16?
But Biden is not alone in believing this. Millions of Democrats and political pundits also believe it, for the same reason coal miners believe Trump will bring back a golden age of coal jobs or that he will turn back the clock to make them “respected.” They believe because they desperately *want* to believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, because facing the reality that the world no longer works under the rules they knew no longer exists and never really existed in the first place.
“I will work across the aisle and find bipartisan solutions” is the Democratic Party version of MAGA, and those who push it are either suckers or swindlers.
My initial reaction was “how does someone who was Obama’s Vice President believe that? And why couldn’t he produce these results from 2009-16?
But Biden is not alone in believing this. Millions of Democrats and political pundits also believe it, for the same reason coal miners believe Trump will bring back a golden age of coal jobs or that he will turn back the clock to make them “respected.” They believe because they desperately *want* to believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, because facing the reality that the world no longer works under the rules they knew no longer exists and never really existed in the first place.
“I will work across the aisle and find bipartisan solutions” is the Democratic Party version of MAGA, and those who push it are either suckers or swindlers.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg